Mammalia - Rodentia - Acaremyidae

Full reference: A. E. Wood. 1949. A new Oligocene rodent genus from Patagonia. American Museum Novitates 1435:1-54

Parent taxon: Acaremyidae according to M. Arnal and M. G. Vucetich 2015

See also McKenna and Bell 1997, Wood 1949 and Wood and Patterson 1959

Sister taxa: Acaremys, Galileomys, Pseudoacaremys

Subtaxa: Platypittamys brachyodon

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Type: Platypittamys brachyodon

Ecology: ground dwelling herbivore

Distribution: found only at Crater Lake Beds - Scarritt Pocket (Oligocene of Argentina)

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Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.